The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.

Abstract: This issue highlights the Americanization of Northern Electric, executive shuffle, and Montreal workers and unemployment; country-wide workers demonstration protests wage controls on Parliament Hill; Common Front and Quebec Unions negotiations affect 200,000 Quebec workers; country-wide response to federal government's Peace and Security package; coup in Argentina as General Jorge Videla replaces Isabel Peron as head of state on Wednesday, March 24, 1976; censorship, economic controlling, and massive arrests as Argentina's new military junta assumes power.

Special report: THE MEDIA ELITECNSP profiles the seven most important media complexes in Canada - who owns Canada's newspapers, how newspapers relate to wider corporate structures, and the extent of their influence on Canadian public opinion. In this issue: The Thompson Chain - Thompson Organization Ltd.